Isco

[NipHolmes]

City are in for Cavani. How many times ffs guys. It's the 10th of June. Calm down.

Isco will come too.

What's the panic about?

-- Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:52 am --

God I'd love to see Mourinho sell Mata to Real Madrid.

It's not true.

I'd Real came calling Ozil would be requested + cash.

They are in for Khedira and I know that as near enough fact.

Is there such a thing ??? ;)

Short of being involved myself I'm unable to state as so but I'm wholeheartedly told he's Jose's principle target in midfield.

 

[CitizenTID]

Do we reckon Txiki and Ferran have agreed a fee with Malaga for Isco yet? If we're in for him you'd think the clubs would have agreed a fee and all that's left is to discuss personal terms with Isco when he's back from U21s.

 

[leewill31]

As someone who watches a lot of Spanish football I fear we may delve too deeply into tiki-taka. It can become very perverse at times and watching Spain's U21s tonight you could see signs of it. 85 minutes of lovely passing and tricks and when there were chances they weren't converted (only 5 of 21 on target). Oh, and often a hesitance to shoot in good positions as they want that one extra pass. All seemed somewhat familiar to me. Then Morata says fook it and storms past the defender with a direct run and takes advantage of some poor positioning by Germany's keeper and scores. Nothing pretty or overly Spanish about it.

I would love Isco here but if we did end up spending all our money on creative midfielders/wingers (none of whom, by the way, are prolific goal scorers unlike a Marco Reus) we're gambling an awful lot on what was last season a very stagnant and wasteful strike force. With a lack of real goal scoring midfielders appearing to be on the way, we'd be hugely reliant on Aguero, Dzeko, and Tevez (if he stays). One brilliant player but prone to wastefulness, one infuriatingly inconsistent player, and the third most wasteful striker in the Premier League. Two years running the club has identified the front line as something that could be improved... Van Persie and Cavani... and to miss out on both would be doubly annoying as both players will have gone to our closest rivals.

It seems to me the club does want a striker with some ruthlessness to his game so if we can't sign Cavani I hope we can sign someone similar - maybe Guidetti can be our secret weapon but it's an awfully big risk to take on someone with a grand total of 0 Premier League appearances. My worry is that we could face another season of many hair-tearing moments of intricate football and nice passes, but lots of slips in key areas, scuffed shots, open net misses, and so on... with not quite enough goals to win the league. While United get dozens of deflected owns goals and headers off corners. A lot of pressure would be on Aguero to not only recover from last season but probably even to improve on his first season with us and become much more clinical.

The thing with Spain is they have no real power, direct play or even an out and out striker to their game.

With Fernandinho now in midfield him and Yaya just scream power to me, we have a striker in Kun who is not only a top class goal scorer but is no push over.

Having all these intricate tiki taka creative midfielders give us a balance.

If Spain had Toure and Kun in their team can you imagine how frightening they would be?

I do think we need a striker upgrade on Dzeko though in my opinion, Cavani would be perfect but is simply too expensive.

I would love Lewandowski.

Aguero is not a top class goal scorer though, that's what love city is saying (another great post LC).

i don't get that statement Aguero is a year younger than cavani yet his games played to games scored is almost identical???

 

[taconinja]

Do we reckon Txiki and Ferran have agreed a fee with Malaga for Isco yet? If we're in for him you'd think the clubs would have agreed a fee and all that's left is to discuss personal terms with Isco when he's back from U21s.

There have been several reports to that effect. Most of them say Malaga is on board and the player would love to continue under Pellegrini, but the wage offer is less than the player's representatives think is equitable.

 

[Neville Kneville]

The thing with Spain is they have no real power, direct play or even an out and out striker to their game.

With Fernandinho now in midfield him and Yaya just scream power to me, we have a striker in Kun who is not only a top class goal scorer but is no push over.

Having all these intricate tiki taka creative midfielders give us a balance.

If Spain had Toure and Kun in their team can you imagine how frightening they would be?

I do think we need a striker upgrade on Dzeko though in my opinion, Cavani would be perfect but is simply too expensive.

I would love Lewandowski.

Aguero is not a top class goal scorer though, that's what love city is saying (another great post LC).

i don't get that statement Aguero is a year younger than cavani yet his games played to games scored is almost identical???

The grass is always greener..

Re Spain U21s, they used a flying machine winger last night so tiki- taka can hardly be blamed for the lack of creativity. Shit crossing & brainlessness by said winger plus the lack of a decent striker more like it. Tello did a fair impression of Theo Walcott.

 

[oakiecokie]

City are in for Cavani. How many times ffs guys. It's the 10th of June. Calm down.

Isco will come too.

What's the panic about?

-- Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:52 am --


It's not true.

I'd Real came calling Ozil would be requested + cash.

They are in for Khedira and I know that as near enough fact.

Is there such a thing ??? ;)

Short of being involved myself I'm unable to state as so but I'm wholeheartedly told he's Jose's principle target in midfield.

Ah fair comment mate.

 

[LoveCity]

I didn't say Aguero wasn't a good goal scorer, I just said he is wasteful and it could be a gamble to over rely on him especially if we played a lone striker system with low goal scoring midfielders surrounding him. I think he could work well in a two striker system like he did at Atletico when he and Forlan scored loads of goals between them without one really suffering. Even in our title winning season Aguero's shots-to-goals ratio was inferior to Cavani's for the last three seasons at Napoli. Imagine them together.

 

[sam-caddick]

I think Kun can do a job on his own up front, but the only issue I have with playing one up top is defenders can start to see predictable movement I find.

If I was a manager I would always play two up top, you need each of them creating space for each other. Plus goals win games, simple as that, the more firepower up top the better.

 

[toffee balls]

I have only seen the lad play a couple of times prior to the under 21 s tournament so I decided to watch him in both games.
At risk of stating the bloody obvious if we do get him it confirms that we will be seeing the 4-3-3 formation adopted by the club.
He will fit into this perfectly.
I was mightly impressed by him.

great balance
2 good feet
always available to receive the ball
deceptively quick with the ball at his feet
unbelievable touch
superb vision and eye for a killer pass

He reminded me of a slower version of Overmars together with more than a touch of Fabregas about him.

What a talent.

Tipa Taki , who gives a shit.

get him signed pdq

 

[FantasyIreland]

All the above plus the right attitude.

Having just watched last nights game,i would be gutted if we missed out on this lad,he will be a star.